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Subject: what is the meaning of life?
Posted Oct 7, 2002 by
*Holly 'my duck is on fire' Hale*
 
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In my opinion, its 42. Nothing more, nothing less.

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Subject: what is the meaning of life?
Posted Oct 7, 2002 by Online Now
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Acually, 42 is the Answer to all questions about, amongst others, the meaning of life.

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Subject: what is the meaning of life?
Posted Oct 7, 2002 by
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42is in somepeoples opinion 42 is the answere, not 24, not 4 2 nor is it 2 4. However does one count to 42 from 0 or from infinity to 42 maybe we count from minus infinity up to 42, or then it is possible that there is no counting of numbers at all, it could just be 42. If it is 42 and not 41 nor 43, but is it maybe 3*7*2 for that is also 42.

This would allow then for 2, 3 and 7 to be the meaning of life as well, so is it then 42, 2, 3, and 7. Also how do we know that the scribbling of 42 is forty-two, it is always possible that forty-two means fried chicken with raw eggs and a raddish in zulu. so maybe then "fried chicken with raw eggs and a raddish" is really the meaning of life????

This question really begs a bit more thought. However a simple answere like the symbols '42' scribbled on a piece of paper is "The meaning of life, the universe and everything".

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Subject: what is the meaning of life?
Posted Oct 7, 2002 by
*Holly 'my duck is on fire' Hale*
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in certain parts of the world, 42 could be the answer to the question "how long is a piece of string?"

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Subject: what is the meaning of life?
Posted Oct 9, 2002 by
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To be honest, I would say 42, but there are many other things to be considered. Who says that life is a question?

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Subject: what is the meaning of life?
Posted Oct 20, 2002 by
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I would just like to let anyone reading this know; I am 42, and now everything makes sense to me. It isn't so much an answer, like "42", it's more like "42...oh, yeah, now I get it..."
Sorry for those of you who are not 42, none of this will make sense until you are 42, and for those of you who are no longer 42, well, I have been assured by my uncle who is also no longer 42 that it is an awfully lot like the crystal bowls that the dolphins left us before they left; almost everyone forgot where they put them or realize what they meant. Sorry to let you down.

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Subject: what is the meaning of life?
Posted Nov 20, 2002 by
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Try and explain what you "get" diversety, I'm only 15 and I kind of get it. It sort of means, it doesn't matter, like, it's like 42 is totaly random, but still, zillions of things can relate to 42, Just like life. If you believe that everything happends for a reason, then every single happening in the universe is the meaning of life (whoa, felt like I just stepped into the total perspective vortex)
anyway, try and explain what YOU think, and tell me what you think about MY think..... yeah..

-tikibobber

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Subject: what is the meaning of life?
Posted Nov 20, 2002 by
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are you sure you're only 15?

spork

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Subject: what is the meaning of life?
Posted Nov 21, 2002 by
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42 is not the answer because the experiment set up by the mice was interfered with.


Alji magic the Magus

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Subject: what is the meaning of life?
Posted Nov 21, 2002 by
*Holly 'my duck is on fire' Hale*
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cool!

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Subject: what is the meaning of life?
Posted Nov 23, 2002 by
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The length of a piece of string is invariably 42.
42 what?
42 inches? Sometimes
42 centimetres? othertimes
42 units of measurement I just made up to divide this piece of string into 42 equal pieces? lots of times!

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Subject: what is the meaning of life?
Posted Nov 23, 2002 by
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Seriously, though: 'The meaning of life is that it stops'
Apprently one of Franz Kafka's bon mots

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Subject: what is the meaning of life?
Posted Dec 4, 2002 by
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Frickin A!!!, but i do have to agree with others, it is the answer to life the universe and everything

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Subject: what is the meaning of life?
Posted Dec 4, 2002 by
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The small mice in Book 1 decide that they will ask: How many roads must a man walk down? answer: 42

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Subject: what is the meaning of life?
Posted Dec 14, 2002 by
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The meaning of life is ham if you don't think at all about it.

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Subject: what is the meaning of life?
Posted Dec 15, 2002 by
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For the longest time I have wanted to know the answer to the question of life.

But then I realize, maybe life is not a question at all, but an answer.

Questions cannot be answerd with other questions, and likewise answers cannot be answerd with more answers.

Therfor life can only be answerd a question.

and then I think to myself, "what is this question?"

and then I realize,
that I have just asked it.

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Subject: what is the meaning of life?
Posted Dec 18, 2002 by
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What is the meaning of the Question?
cake

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Subject: While I'm waiting for the answer please pass another beer
Posted Jan 6, 2003 by
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Man was only born to suffer and die, with brief moments of transitory joy and false hope to keep him/her going.

With that in mind - Eat, drink, and make merry. Make a friend, smile at an old person, plant some flowers, make love.

/0

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Subject: what is the meaning of life?
Posted Jan 6, 2003 by Online Now
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42 cdouble

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Subject: what is the meaning of life?
Posted Jan 6, 2003 by
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What is this whole thing about 42? Does that mean you know the true meaning of life when you are 42?

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